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KNOW THY GENES Researchers have found a genetic defect present in roughly 6% of Ashkenazi Jews that doubles the risk of colon cancer. The mutation can be picked up with a $200 blood test. And if cancer is detected early, the likelihood of a cure is high...
Sunday morning at St. Louis' Kingshighway Baptist Church could pass for a slow day at a retirement-home chapel. The dwindling flock is a sea of white hair and bald heads. And the service, which kicks off with prayers for a colon-cancer victim, is heavy with talk of illness and grandchildren. But as a grandfather of 10 gets up to testify, an unexpectedly joyful noise seeps through the floorboards--the sounds of salsa-inflected guitars and tambourines. The musicians, practicing in a basement fellowship room, belong to a fast-growing young Latino Baptist congregation that has shared Kingshighway...
DIED. STANLEY SCHACHTER, 75, social psychologist who found consequence in the quotidian; of colon cancer; in East Hampton, N.Y. Among his seemingly obvious notions: obese people overeat past the point of hunger; academics say "uhm" to buy time; individuals influence the stock market. He modestly called one of his theories "bubba psychology...
...Take it off the streets and put it back in the home where it started") -- often took the edge off in the final days of hard-fought elections. If elected, he promised to improve the Postal Service: "I can lose your mail for half that much." After successfully beating colon cancer in 1995, Paulsen saw the end of the campaign trail looming when he learned last November that he was suffering from brain cancer...
...Raising concern about how all GENETIC TESTING is conducted, researchers found that only 20% of patients tested for a form of inherited colon cancer ever receive formal genetic counseling. Worse, doctors misinterpreted 30% of the results...